Kritická Situace, or Critical Situation, were from the Czech Republic. This is their one LP from what I can tell… Everything I can find on the internet is in Czech. They used to have a website, but it’s gone… You might be able to find it on the Wayback Machine, but I didn’t feel like looking.
Musically, Kritická Situace aren’t too far off from 4 Walls Falling. Melodic hardcore, with youth-crew and metal influences. I know my old band was greatly influenced by their song-writing, especially in the early days…
Snake Nation was a side project of Corrosion of Conformity’s Woody Weatherman featuring fellow CoC-er Mike Dean and Brian Walsby (known for drawing the original artwork for 7 Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together, among other things). I’ve been meaning to post this since I started this blog, and since there seems to be a lot of Corrosion of Conformity buzz on a few other blogs recently I figured now was a good time.
Musically, Snake Nation are somewhere between classic, 1980’s Corrosion of Conformity and Blue Cheer. Really. It’s kind of psychedelic and punk at the same time. The production isn’t so hot, it was recorded on the cheap and they pocketed the budget they didn’t spend. The engineer thought it sounded like Foghat! What’s important is this is the last of the “old” punk CoC sound, before the “new” metal/southern rock CoC took hold. I consider it the lost Corrosion of Conformity record.
For those interested in further reading, I present the following links:
This is Snake Nation's only release. Rumor has it the cassette version has extra tracks. The download is a rip of my personal vinyl. If you contact Brian Walsby, he's been known to make people CDRs for a few dollars.
To go along with this post on Corgeasm, I present Tuscon, Arizona’s Groundwork. Typical of many bands of that time, they lasted a few short years but had a large impact on hardcore in the mid-1990s. Their brutally heavy yet emotional style set them apart from many bands.
This record, along with Unbroken’s life.love.regret, came along at just the right time for me. I was looking for something a little heavier than bands like Indian Summer, yet not the tough-guy, straight edge, moshcore of Earth Crisis and 25 ta Life. When A Prayer for the Dead finally kicks in, it still sends shivers down my spine. The bass is so heavy. Bands like this make we want to start bands of my own, just so I can make music that might touch others the way this touched me. Cheesy, I know…
As usual, I don’t know much about this band. I heard that some of the members went on to another band called Absinthe. This CD is an incomplete discography release, combining the Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent LP, their side of the Unbroken Split, the Living in Fear and Lay Down 7 inches, and their track from the Lacking Mindset compilation. Missing is their tracks from Land of Greed… World of Need, a split with Undertow, and possibly more…
Groundwork - Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent (1994)
Virginia’s Kilara was one of my favorites during the late 1990s. My band did a short tour with them and we all made quick friends. They were similar in sound to bands like Down, yet more heavy, more punk, more down to earth, and more approachable. Kilara took equal parts blues, punk, metal and bluegrass to cook up a fierce, chaotic, cacophony of, err… southern-fried metal. As far as I know, they were one of the first, and certainly my initiation to the sludge-metal/southern-metal genre.
Formed as a side project of then-Avail-drummer Erik Larson, members went on to be in Alabama Thunderpussy, Page 99, and others. Southern Fried Metal compiles their 7–inches, splits, and demo.
Mediafire not only deleted all my files, but deleted my account too. If you want me to re-upload something, just comment in this post. That said, can anyone recommend a good file sharing site?
Also, I changed the look. What do you think?
